Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

Discord gives a relish to concord.